What a saint is, in a general sense, a saint is a person whose ideas can influence a nation or even an entire world. Confucius in China and Jesus in the West are both called saints.
However, there is always a place where the sun can't shine, that is, a dark corner. When you are in prison, in distress, someone with a sword, whether that person is a villain or a robber, he is your saint. The movie "Saint Vincent" tells such a story.
Vincent was a very unreliable old man, scruffy in appearance, misbehaving, "eating, drinking and gambling" accounted for three things, alcoholism, called strippers, horses, and a bunch of debts. And he is also grumpy, exporting into "dirty". Even, once, when knocking on the ice cube, I accidentally stabbed my hand, screamed in pain, smashed it in the house, and fell asleep when I was tired. In a word, this bad old man is very bad.
Because his mother had just divorced, oliver, a young boy, moved with his mother and became neighbors with Vincent. On the first day of the meeting, because the moving car hit the branches of the Vincent family's tree, Vincent tried to blackmail Oliver's mother, which made the mother and Oliver very bad.
After moving, the mother was busy with her work as a hospital nurse because she had to bear the burden of the family, so she neglected to pay attention to her son. On his first day at school, Oliver was bullied by the school bully and snatched his wallet, cell phone and keys. Without a key, he had to ask his neighbor Vincent for help. The mother had to work overtime and could not go home immediately, so she had to entrust her son to Vincent. Vincent agreed, but after his mother returned home, Vincent immediately sat down on the ground and asked Oliver's mother for the care fee and the price of eating Oliver's can of sardines. This left both mother and son speechless.
Again, my mother worked overtime and didn't have time to pick up Oliver from school. Mother asks Vincent to help pick up Oliver home (negotiate a good price). Vincent picked up Oliver on the way to buy cigarettes, Oliver was entangled by the school bully, just when Oliver was helpless, Vincent went down to the gods and beat the school bully. Oliver's eyes were filled with small stars.
Later, he saw a completely different Vincent. Vincent took him to a nursing home to visit his wife. Vincent's wife had been ill and had lost her memory for so long ago that she had completely forgotten about Vincent. Vincent could only communicate with her disguised as a doctor each time. Vincent, who talks to his wife, is gentle and elegant, unusual.
Vincent and Oliver return home, and Vincent, in order to thank him for helping him move his wife's clothes, teaches him how to fight.
The next day, Oliver beat up the school bully. Returning home smugly to tell Vincent the good news. At Vincent's house, he first met a pregnant striptease girl (later abbreviated as a girl).
To celebrate the good news, Vincent takes Oliver to the horse. The two had great luck and won 20 times the leverage. Vincent immediately pays off the bank debt and then takes Oliver to happy, where Hipi's places are nightclubs and bars.
It seems that the mother on the other side has encountered some trouble, tired and tired to wait until the end of the work, only to receive the school to tell her son that she is fighting at school, asking Vincent for confirmation but can not get through the phone, and when picking up the car, she received a court leaflet from her ex-husband for Oliver's custody
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A series of blows made the mother very anxious. When Vincent and Oliver return home, the mother angrily asks Vincent how he can teach children to fight, but Vincent is also angry, if it were not for the fact that your son was still being bullied at school, you would have time to question me if I might as well care about your son. The two broke up unhappily.
The next day, the two who fought were punished to clean the toilet, and the two told their family misfortunes, turned the gang into a jade, and the school bully also returned Oliver's things.
But then Vincent began to take the canopy. The wife's nursing home was in arrears for too long, and the hospital advised her to take her wife to the nursing home where she earned a bargain. Vincent refused, and began to rush to the hospital, first stealing the hospital to sell, and then taking out all the bank deposits to gamble on horses and make a last attempt. In the end he lost all his money.
When I got home, I ran into someone who was chasing debts. After a series of blows, the villainous old man could not hold on any longer, directly suffered a stroke and fell to the ground, and was found by Oliver after school and taken to the hospital.
Under the care of Oliver, his mother, and the call girl, Vincent recovered step by step. But because of Vincent's "evil deeds"—teaching Oliver to fight, taking Oliver to nightclubs and bars," his mother losing the lawsuit, Oliver's half custody, and Oliver being watched into adulthood.
After being discharged from the hospital, bad news came from the nursing home, his wife died, and Vincent was alone in sorting out his wife's belongings. Next to the photo with his wife, there is a photo of Vincent joining the army when he was young, as if telling the story of Vincent's past is not simple.
The school hosts an event in search of contemporary sages, and Oliver begins to search for Vincent's past, and at the awards ceremony, Oliver recounts Vincent's life.
At the end of the film, Vincent begins to learn to begin to reconcile with the world, and he is no longer a villain. When Oliver learned to buy two packs of snacks from a vending machine with a bag of money, Vincent told him it was theft, and Oliver invested another portion of the money.
The saints have a past, and the sinners have a new life. That's the case with Vincent.